green cronyism (page 11)

That was the theme of my most recent newsletter, and it has been an ongoing subject of mine for years. Right now the green expensive electricity energy lobby is out in force working to get lawmakers to think of electricity generation as a jobs program, to support…

Politicians and media cheered the passage into law of Senate Bill 305, which would allow the North Carolina Eastern Municipal Power Agency to sell its ownership in four power plants to Duke Energy Progress for $1.2 billion, reducing NCEMPA’s $1.7 billion debt to $480 million. The bill is expected to yield…

A brief search of the JLF network of sites shows I am the only one to use the term enthymeme. That being the case, I suppose I should explain myself before poking fun of one published today in The News & Observer about the need for a clean energy plan…

… you write a story about a business owner on a town council getting the council to support his industry, then using that success to try to get the state to underwrite the town’s decision to support his industry, and not have one word about the obvious and rather blatant…

Triangle Business Journal reports on a poll by a group calling itself “Conservatives for Clean Energy” that supposedly finds “strong support for clean energy in NC.” If you examine the poll questions, which is made rather annoying by a click-through Flash presentation, you will realize something is missing.

The Charlotte Observer reported last week that Duke Energy wants to pay North Carolina solar farm developers 15 percent less for their electricity than it now does, according to filings this week. … Duke says this year’s lower rates are a result of falling natural gas prices. Renewable energy…

To hear them tell it, solar is a powerhouse industry that would collapse like the Tacoma Narrows Bridge if any state support were removed. —11/18/13 This “extraordinary success story” apparently needs to be on the public teat longer than Pu Yi, the boy emperor of China.

A new report from the Beacon Hill Institute at Suffolk University (BHI) shows the costs that the New Hampshire, its employees, and its ratepaying families will bear to meet the state’s ambitious renewable portfolio standard (RPS) mandate that 24.8 percent of electricity sold to consumers be from renewable energy sources…